Archives for: October 2005

10/28/05

  11:43:43 pm, by Nimble   , 1052 words  
Categories: Thoughts, Languages, People

Telling Where People Come From

I've always had an interest in spoken languages. We boarded foreign students to help make ends meet once upon a very long time ago, so I got exposed to quite a few people whose first language was not English. I thought it was the most fascinating thing… more »

10/27/05

  03:36:20 am, by Nimble   , 441 words  
Categories: Thoughts, Religion, Science

Light-Hearted Monkey Trial

I'm always interested in things that go on south (or, perish the thought, north) of the border here, to see what the latest shenanigans of creationism, or its smartly-dressed, smooth-talking brother, Intelligent Design. So, the goings-on in the case… more »

10/22/05

  11:13:38 pm, by Nimble   , 215 words  
Categories: Reviews, Programming, Toys

Bubble, Bubble, Build's In Trouble

Well, my coworker Robert actually went out and did it :) I came back to work after my wedding to see two lava lamps on top of the filing cabinet outside our office. more »
  10:50:03 am, by Nimble   , 742 words  
Categories: Reviews, Games

Katamari Damacy

A lot of people I know have encountered this before (to which I have to say, why didn't you tell me about it?), but our good friends Ennien and Robin showed this to us during one of our visits. They gave us a pre-wedding gift of a Playstation along… more »
  03:38:25 am, by Nimble   , 104 words  
Categories: Reviews, Movies

Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit

My best man took me to see this movie on the day of the wedding. Ahhh, what a nerve-calmer :) It's pretty good, and the story line with its twist is nifty, but it doesn't get truly funny until quite late in the movie. I still much prefer Aardman's "A… more »

10/19/05

  03:40:15 am, by Nimble   , 1827 words  
Categories: Announcements [A]

Wedded!

Wow, I am going to have a lot of updates to do here, especially to the wedding site, now that we've done the whole kitten kaboodle! The wedding went great! Some people told me in advance that things go much more quickly than you had imagined it… more »

10/11/05

  01:29:18 am, by Nimble   , 167 words  
Categories: Distractions, Reviews, Toys

Frigits

While I was ordering a couple of things from good ol' ThinkGeek, I decided to spoil myself a little bit with a silly toy. That toy was Frigits, which is essentially a little marble maze on magnets that you stick to the side of your fridge. You know,… more »

10/08/05

  01:42:39 am, by Nimble   , 509 words  
Categories: Announcements [A]

A Week Left!

Great googly-moogly - there's a week and some handful of hours left until the wedding. Criminy! Lots of last-minute things to do, I'm sure, but we have covered off so many. We can't get away for an actual honeymoon, but we'll spoil ourselves for a… more »

10/07/05

  01:46:19 am, by Nimble   , 1034 words  
Categories: Reviews, Programming

.NET and Delphi 2005

WARNING: Technical :) more »

10/03/05

  02:00:56 am, by Nimble   , 48 words  
Categories: Announcements [A]

Townhouse Gone!

Possession date has come and gone. September 30, all final transfers took place! Thank you to my sweetie and my future in-laws especially for all their hard work in evacuating the place, and to my realtor for getting it on market and giving some great… more »
  01:52:00 am, by Nimble   , 274 words  
Categories: Distractions

Hacker, Hack Thyself

I'm sure this one has made the rounds before (it's from April), but I just love the [possibly apocryphal?] story and didn't encounter it until just today. It answers the question: what happens when a angry, blustering, amateur "hacker" who feels… more »

10/02/05

  09:33:21 pm, by Nimble   , 260 words  
Categories: Thoughts, Internet, Spamming

First E-mail Spoof "Attack"

No, it was just under 350 bouncebacks from a spam that forged a nimblebrain address as their 'from:' address. more »